As long as Lowe's discriminates, we'll boycott

We've got a reality show for everything nowadays. But the evangelical group that complained to Lowe's Home Improvement, demanding it yank its television ads, wasn't upset over the antics of Snooki, or lifestyles on MTV's Teen Mom.

They'll ignore the binge drinking and premarital sex. What they're outraged about is TLC's "All-American Muslim," a reality show that chronicles the lives of five families from Dearborn, Mich., a Detroit suburb with a large Muslim and Arab-American population.

This is essentially a cast of squares: high school sweethearts, power couples with busy careers, a father who coaches the local football team. Yet the conservative group, Florida Family Association, finds that unbearably offensive, because these families happen to be Muslim. It called the program "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values."

Meaning that because one of these five families isn't harboring a terrorist, this is a dangerous misrepresentation of Muslims in America. What next? An offensive stereotype on every TV show? Should the sitcom 7th Heaven, about a Protestant minister's family, have featured the radicalized Christian group Aryan Nation? Should the wholesome Cosby family have included a gangbanger out on parole? Should Full House have added a brooding sociopathic loner son, who dresses all in black and ends up shooting dozens of classmates at his high school?

Incredibly, Lowe's bowed to the demands of this bigoted group, pulling its advertising from "All-American Muslim." But being wussy is only getting the retail giant in deeper trouble, it turns out. Now even more people are mad, like California Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, who called the Lowe's decision "un-American" and "naked religious bigotry."

They should convey that message with their wallets. If Lowe's doesn't reinstate the ads, stay out of this store. Time for an All-American boycott.